[clug] case-insensitive file system

[Bill Clarke]

David Gibson wrote, On 16/06/04 10:54:
> No, it's really not a trivial task in userspace.  The only way to do a
> case-insensitve lookup from userspace is list and scan the entire
> directory manually.  Ugly and slow.

not if the file names are only stored lower- (or upper-) case.

cheers,
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